Early Gastrointestinal Cancers

1. Clinically Relevant Study End Points in Rectal Cancer
Carlos Fernandez-Martos, Angel Guerrero, Bruce Minsky

2. Neoadjuvant Treatment in Rectal Cancer: Do We Always Need Radiotherapy–or Can We Risk Assess Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Better?
Rob Glynne-Jones

3. Treatment Dilemmas in Patients with Synchronous Colorectal Liver Metastases
T. J. M. Ruers, J. Hagendoorn

4. Pancreatic Surgery: Beyond the Traditional Limits
Sascha A. Müller, Ignazio Tarantino, David J. Martin, Bruno M. Schmied

5. Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer
Asma Sultana, Trevor Cox, Paula Ghaneh, John P. Neoptolemos

6. Radiotherapy of the Pancreas: State of the Art in 2012
F. Mornex, M. Hatime, S. Touch, B. Elmorabit, G. Pigne, C. Enachescu, O. Diaz, Y. Elkhoti

7. Adenocarcinoma Of the GEJ: Gastric or Oesophageal Cancer?
J. Rüschoff

8. Why is There a Change in Patterns of GE Cancer?
Prarthana Thiagarajan, Janusz A. Jankowski

9. Endoscopic Treatment for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Tsuneo Oyama

10. Open or Minimally Invasive Resection for Oesophageal Cancer?
Christophe Mariette, William B. Robb

11. Choosing the Best Treatment for Esophageal Cancer
A. H. Hölscher, E. Bollschweiler

12. Multimodal Therapy of GEJ Cancer: When is the Definitive Radiochemotherapy the Treatment of Choice?
Michael Stahl

13. Radiotherapy of Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer
Florian Sterzing, Lars Grenacher, Jürgen Debus

14. Optimizing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Through the Use of Early Response Evaluation by Positron Emission Tomography
Florian Lordick

15. Optimal Surgery for Gastric Cancer: Is More Always Better?
William H. Allum

16. Can Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Replace Extended Lymph Node Dissection in Gastric Cancer?
Edwin P. M. Jansen, Henk Boot, Cornelis J. H. Velde, Johanna Sandick, Annemieke Cats, Marcel Verheij

17. Predicting the Response to Chemotherapy in Gastric Adenocarcinoma: Who Benefits from Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy?
William B. Robb, Christophe Mariette

18. Prediction of Response and Prognosis by a Score Including only Pretherapeutic Parameters in 410 Neoadjuvant Treated Gastric Cancer Patients
Lorenzen Sylvie, Blank Susanne, Ott Katja

19. Adjuvant Chemotherapy: An Option for Asian Patients Only?
Yung-Jue Bang

20. Selecting the Best Treatment for an Individual Patient
Alessandro Bittoni, Luca Faloppi, Riccardo Giampieri, Stefano Cascinu

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